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triphibian
[ trahy-fib-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- skilled in combat equally on land, sea, and in the air.
- (of an aircraft) equipped to take off from land, water, snow, or ice.
noun
- a person who is triphibian.
- a triphibian airplane.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of triphibian1
First recorded in 1940–45; tri- + (am)phibian
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Politicos Winston Churchill found that the fighting versatility of Lord Louis Mountbatten, newly appointed Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, called for a new word, promptly furnished it : "He is what, pedants notwithstanding, I will venture to call a complete triphibian�that is to say, a creature equally at home in three elements, earth, air and water, and also well accustomed to fire."
Noise of air, he was flying, it must have been a triphibian they took him onto.
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But he could not anticipate what would happen to him in his Triphibian Atomicar.
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